What is the term for a really BIG source code commit?

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Published on 2012-06-13T15:11:15Z Indexed on 2012/06/15 15:26 UTC
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Sometimes when we check the commit history of a software, we may see that there are a few commits that are really BIG - they may change 10 or 20 files with hundreds of changed source code lines (delta). I remember that there is a commonly used term for such BIG commit but I can't recall exactly what that term is. Can anyone help me? What is the term that programmers usually use to refer to such BIG and giant commit?

BTW, is committing a lot of changes all together a good practice?

UPDATE: thank you guys for the inspiring discussion! But I think "code bomb" is the term that I'm looking for.

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